The prisoner transfer agreement with Libya is the biggest of Blair's booby traps for Brown to go off so far. But it is not the first. Nor will it be the last.
What Scots think of Kenny McAskill's decision will be made clear at the Glasgow North-East by-election. Even the prospect of electing an Opus Dei MP is not quite a good enough reason to vote SNP even in general, never mind now.
And as for Blair, considering how fabulously rich he has become as his reward for the Iraq War, the Statute Law should be amended to bill him by name for the cost of it.
The Libya deal was also vintage neoconservatism in action - pretending to get rid of non-existent WMD so that the oil money could flow.
Quite amusing to see Jack McConnell getting worked up about Scottish saltires being waved in Libya.
ReplyDeleteIt wasnt exactly Scots who waved them.
The Americans are hardly in the business of of the moral high ground. The FBI Director seems to have forgotten TWO things...there was no Jury.........and er Guantanamo.
Likewise waving saltires in Tripoli is not as bad as flagwaving in an illegal war.
Hopefully this is actually playing into the Scots Nats hands. They have a chance to disassociate themselves from the spookery in Whitehall, trade agreements AND they get the chance to tell the Yanks to go home.
(And no the americans wont suddenly move their factories).
"They have a chance to disassociate themselves from the spookery in Whitehall"
ReplyDeleteThey should be so lucky...